Sam Winchester

Sam Winchester

Infobox character
colour = Black
colour text = White
name = Samuel Winchester
series = Supernatural


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first = Pilot
last =
cause =
creator = Eric Kripke
portrayer = Jared Padalecki
episode =
nickname = Sam/Sammy
alias = Agent Hamill
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0802033/ Robert Singer]
Mr. Berkowitz
Detective McCreedy
Father Frehley
Dr. Jerry Kaplan
Deputy Marshal Frank Beard
Detective Dante
Police Chief Phil Jones
Agent Page
Detective Bachman
Wedge Antillies
species = Human (some supernatural abilities)
gender = Male
age = age|1983|5|2
born = May 2, 1983
death =
specialty = Research
Hunting
Exorcisms
occupation = Hunter
Doctoral Student (Formerly)
title =
family = Dean Winchester (brother)
John Winchester (father; deceased)
Mary Winchester (mother; deceased)
spouse =
significantother= Jessica Lee Moore (girlfriend; deceased)
children =
relatives = Deanna Campbell (grandmother; deceased)
Samuel Campbell (grandfather; deceased)
unnamed granduncle, deceased
residence = Lawrence, Kansas (Formerly)
religion =
nationality =
imdb_id = 0018168

Samuel "Sam" Winchester is a fictional character in The CW Television Network's "Supernatural", played by Jared Padalecki.

Background

Sam was born on May 2, 1983 to John and Mary Winchester in Lawrence, Kansas. He was the couple's second born child and younger son, four years younger than his older brother, Dean. Sam stands at 6'4" tall. Sam is named after his maternal grandfather Samuel Campbell. ["In the Beginning: Season 4"]

Sam is different from his older brother, in that he is sensitive, rational, more innocent, and seemingly more concerned with living a "normal life" than his brother; in spite of this, it is apparent that he would do anything for Dean. He also rebelled against his father's attempts to raise him as a hunter and enrolled in Stanford University.

When Dean came to ask Sam for his help in the first episode, the viewers are introduced to Jessica, Sam's girlfriend. It is apparent that Sam was somewhat popular, despite no one knowing what it is his family really does. The nickname "Sammy" was given to him by his father, though no one besides Dean is allowed to call him that. Sam points this out in the season one episode "The Benders", where a guy calls him Sammy, to which he angrily responds that his name is Sam. Hunter Gordon Walker refers to him as Sammy too, in episode "Bloodlust", after which Sam explains crankily that Dean is the only one who gets to call him that.

Because of his softer side and his need for a normal life, Sam is more careful with girls and therefore has more love interests than Dean, such as Jessica, Sarah Blake, Madison, and possibly Ruby.

The character of Sam has shown a gradual change over the course of the third season, starting from the finale of season two "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 2". The most noted part to this change is an unusual coldness in his normally "nice guy" nature, particularly in the episode "Bedtime Stories" when he kills the Crossroads Demon in cold blood as well as going partially insane in the episode "Mystery Spot".

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When Sam was only six months old (November 2, 1983), his mother was killed in his nursery by the demon Azazel. Infant Sam was saved when Dean ran outside with him while their father went back to try to rescue Mary, who was stuck on the ceiling and consumed by the flames that later engulfed the entire house.

Twenty-two years later to the day, Azazel kills Sam's girlfriend, Jessica, spurring Sam to embark on a journey with his brother to find their dad and kill the demon that killed their mother. While their father, John, is missing, he occasionally contacts the boys to leave them missions. The boys take care of mythical creatures and urban legends such as the Woman in White, the wendigo, folklore's Bloody Mary, and shapeshifters. During this time, Sam begins experiencing episodes of precognition and once displays telekinesis.

The season finale concludes with Sam, Dean, and their father escaping from a horrific crash with Azazel in Salvation, Iowa. While Sam is driving his father, and a badly wounded Dean to a hospital after his brother is nearly killed by the demon (who had been possessing John), a truck piloted by a possessed man crashes into them, totaling Dean's Impala and leaving Dean on the cusp of death & 911 is called.

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In the beginning of the second season, Sam takes a more active role in the hunting. He tells Dean that this is what their dad would have wanted him to do. Azazel's plans for Sam are still unknown. Dean and Sam meet with three people that John once knew: Ellen Harvelle, her daughter Jo, and their computer genius associate Ash. They assist the brothers in their hunting.

In the episode "Simon Said", Sam displays immunity to Andy Gallagher's power of mind control, as opposed to Dean, who gave him his beloved Impala. He is also immune to the demonic sulfur virus in the episode "Croatoan."

Since "Hunted", Sam has learned what his father told Dean moments before his death: That Azazel plans to cause Sam to become evil and use him and "children like him" as soldiers in an upcoming war. Dean was told that if he could not save Sam, he would have to kill him. Sam is convinced that he must save as many people as he can in order to change his destiny, as he drunkenly states in "Playthings."

In the episode "Born Under a Bad Sign", Sam is possessed by the same demon responsible for Meg Masters' possession in Season 1, and the demon uses Sam's body to kill another hunter. This demon may also have knowledge of the events that led to the death of Ellen's husband. It becomes clear that if the time comes for Dean to shoot his brother, Dean would not be able to do so.

In the episode "What Is and What Should Never Be", Sam and Dean aren't close in the alternate reality created by a djinn. Neither Sam nor Dean had ever hunted, and Jessica is Sam's fiancée. As in reverse to reality, their mother is alive but their father died of natural causes.

The first episode of the second season finale, "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1", Sam is trapped in a haunted abandoned town in South Dakota with "others" of his kind. It is revealed that there is demon blood in Sam and his mother knew who Azazel was, much to Sam's surprise. Sam is stabbed by a soldier named Jake and collapses in his older brother's arms just as he and fellow hunter Bobby Singer come to the rescue. He dies within the minute, amidst his brother's pleas for him to stay with him.

In the second episode of the season finale, Dean made a deal with a "Crossroads Demon" to deliver himself to Hell in one year, in exchange for Sam's life. Sam doesn't know of what happened while he was dead, and is in fact unaware that he was ever dead in the first place. In the following battle to prevent Jake and Azazel from unleashing a demonic army, Sam shoots and kills Jake, unloading seven bullets into his body, four in the back and three in Jake's face. This is the first time Sam kills a man, or someone that isn't a demon, and seems to show no remorse; this could be because Jake killed him prior. Azazel questions Dean if he is sure that what he brought back in Sam is 100% pure. Sam figures out that he was dead, and tells Dean he'll get him out of the deal he made, no matter what.

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Season 3 mainly focuses on Sam taking a darker tone than he had in the previous seasons. He is doing whatever he can, or has to, to save Dean from going to Hell. In the episode "Fresh Blood" he decapitates Gordon Walker, a hunter who is turned into a vampire after he tries to kill Sam. Sam kills him with only a long piece of barbed wire. Furthermore, Sam says that his powers have gone away since Dean killed the Yellow-Eyed Demon. Thus far during the season Sam has seemed to show no remorse for killing people possessed by demons or other "human" enemies as previously seen in the show.

In the season finale Dean and Sam, armed with Ruby's demon-killing knife, confront Lilith in a last ditch effort to protect Sam and save Dean's soul. Lilith, having stolen Ruby's host body, ultimately incapacitates Sam and opens the door for the hellhounds to attack Dean, forcing Sam to watch. She then tries to kill Sam, but her powers are apparently useless against him. Sam recovers the knife as Lilith abandons her host. He then goes to Dean's bloody and lifeless body and cradles it as he begins to cry.

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Sam gains a new ability, a power to exorcise a demon at his will. He has also been learning to hone his psychic abilities, something that he has kept secret from Bobby and Dean. He also appears to have entered at least a sexual relationship with Ruby. He also is more willing to believe in angels than his brother. In the episode "In the Beginning", Sam is shown leaving with Ruby in the middle of the night and is not seen for the rest of the episode. The final scene shows Castiel talking to Dean telling him that he, and the others know what Azazel did to Sam but are not sure why and what his "End Game" is because Azazel covered his tracks. He tells Dean that Sam is heading down a dangerous road and they are not sure where it leads and warns him to stop it or they will.

It is revealed in "Metamorphsis" that Sam went out with Ruby to learn where Lilith is. Dean, however, discovers that Sam has been lying to him. After assisting Dean in dealing with a rougaru in Missouri, Sam resolves to not use his powers again. Whether or not he will remains to be seen.

Equipment

In Season One, he owns what appears to be a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop, which he uses to gather information for hunts. The first time Sam uses the laptop is in the second episode "Wendigo", where he plays a video message. His possession of the laptop is ambiguous at this point because it is unclear what he did and did not salvage from the fire at Stanford in the pilot episode. In that same episode, his brother Dean makes references using computer software which leads viewers to believe that Dean may, in fact, be the owner of the laptop. In "Tall Tales," Sam claims ownership of the laptop, accusing Dean of misplacing it.

In the beginning of Season Two, when Sam and Bobby Singer are surveying the wreckage of the totaled Impala, Sam pulls the broken PC from the passenger seat. Then, in "Crossroad Blues," Sam is seen using an Apple 15" PowerBook or MacBook Pro though, interestingly, its display shows a Windows OS.

Sam also appears to own a Verizon-branded Motorola Q which has on at least one occasion (in "Hollywood Babylon") been used to visually track unseen ghosts. This phone however was destroyed in the third season episode "Fresh Blood."

Powers, Skills, and Abilities

Sam exhibits both telekinetic and precognitive abilities at various times throughout the series. His telekinesis on screen is limited to a single incident wherein he was under extreme stress and pressure, while his precognitive abilities, manifesting as dreams and visions of others' deaths, started prior to the first episode with dreams of Jessica's death, and continued throughout the first two seasons. Sam stated that visions stopped with the death of Azazel at the end of Season Two; Azazel is assumed to have given Sam and the other psychic children their gifts by feeding them his blood. However, according to Ruby, his powers are simply dormant. Ruby also states that if he was in full control of his power, he could blow away demons as powerful as Lilith with no effort. At the end of "No Rest For the Wicked," Sam demonstrates an ability to stop Lilith's attack, proving Ruby's theory correct. At the start of the fourth season, Sam is seen to have begun using his powers to exorcise demons, with the help of Ruby, occupying a new host. In the first season episode "Home", Sam demonstrated the ability to sense the presence of the poltergeist even after Missouri couldn't. Also, in "In My Time of Dying", Sam was able to sense Dean's spirit during a time of great stress. He is immune to a demon-spawned virus, called Croatan, which turns humans violent and driven to infect others.

In addition thanks to his training as a hunter by his father he is a skilled fighter, expert with firearms, shotguns, and melee weapons. Like his brother Dean, Sam is skilled in many areas frowned upon by law, such as lock picking, computer hacking, car jacking. In the first two seasons he is often hesitant about using these skills because of his desire to be a 'normal' citizen, however this lessens over time. He has vast knowledge of the supernatural and is considered an "encyclopedia of weirdness." He is proficient in reading and recalling spells written in foreign languages such as Latin that can exorcise, summon or vanquish demons and, more often than Dean, is stuck with doing the research for their latest hunt. He also has a great sense of direction and time, being able to find a vampire's nest while blindfolded by keeping track of the time and the turns of the car.

Weaponry

Sam uses a chromed Beretta 92fs loaded with silver rounds and uses a pistol grip 4-shelled 12 gauge shotgun loaded with rock salt.

Though Sam is usually more concerned about not hurting the hosts and others possessed by demons, he has actually used The Colt on more occasions than any other known person, including the original hunter. However, as of the end of the third season he has only killed three demons with the weapon, the same number as Dean.

At the end of the third season Sam loses possession of The Colt, but he gains possession of Ruby's Dagger upon Dean's death and Ruby's absence.

Appearances

As one of the stars of the series, Sam has appeared in all the episodes. However, most episodes are focused on either Sam or Dean.

Notable episodes about Sam

*"Pilot"
*"Bloody Mary"
*"Bugs"
*"Home"
*"Provenance"
*"Asylum"
*"Nightmare"
*"Salvation"
*"Simon Said"
*"Croatoan"
*"Hunted"
*"Playthings"
*"Houses of the Holy"
*"Born Under a Bad Sign"
*"Heart"
*"All Hell Breaks Loose, Part 1"
*"Bad Day at Black Rock"
*"Fresh Blood"
*"A Very Supernatural Christmas"
*"Mystery Spot"
*"Lazarus Rising"

External links

* [http://supernaturalwiki.com/ "Supernatural Wiki"]


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